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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/networking/regulatory.txt')
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1 files changed, 28 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/regulatory.txt b/Documentation/networking/regulatory.txt index dcf31648414..356f791af57 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/regulatory.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/regulatory.txt @@ -89,14 +89,14 @@ added to this document when its support is enabled. Device drivers who provide their own built regulatory domain do not need a callback as the channels registered by them are the only ones that will be allowed and therefore *additional* -cannels cannot be enabled. +channels cannot be enabled. Example code - drivers hinting an alpha2: ------------------------------------------ This example comes from the zd1211rw device driver. You can start by having a mapping of your device's EEPROM country/regulatory -domain value to to a specific alpha2 as follows: +domain value to a specific alpha2 as follows: static struct zd_reg_alpha2_map reg_alpha2_map[] = { { ZD_REGDOMAIN_FCC, "US" }, @@ -159,10 +159,10 @@ struct ieee80211_regdomain mydriver_jp_regdom = { REG_RULE(2412-20, 2484+20, 40, 6, 20, 0), /* IEEE 802.11a, channels 34..48 */ REG_RULE(5170-20, 5240+20, 40, 6, 20, - NL80211_RRF_PASSIVE_SCAN), + NL80211_RRF_NO_IR), /* IEEE 802.11a, channels 52..64 */ REG_RULE(5260-20, 5320+20, 40, 6, 20, - NL80211_RRF_NO_IBSS | + NL80211_RRF_NO_IR| NL80211_RRF_DFS), } }; @@ -188,3 +188,27 @@ Then in some part of your code after your wiphy has been registered: &mydriver_jp_regdom.reg_rules[i], sizeof(struct ieee80211_reg_rule)); regulatory_struct_hint(rd); + +Statically compiled regulatory database +--------------------------------------- + +In most situations the userland solution using CRDA as described +above is the preferred solution. However in some cases a set of +rules built into the kernel itself may be desirable. To account +for this situation, a configuration option has been provided +(i.e. CONFIG_CFG80211_INTERNAL_REGDB). With this option enabled, +the wireless database information contained in net/wireless/db.txt is +used to generate a data structure encoded in net/wireless/regdb.c. +That option also enables code in net/wireless/reg.c which queries +the data in regdb.c as an alternative to using CRDA. + +The file net/wireless/db.txt should be kept up-to-date with the db.txt +file available in the git repository here: + + git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-regdb.git + +Again, most users in most situations should be using the CRDA package +provided with their distribution, and in most other situations users +should be building and using CRDA on their own rather than using +this option. If you are not absolutely sure that you should be using +CONFIG_CFG80211_INTERNAL_REGDB then _DO_NOT_USE_IT_. |